100 principles of game design / Wendy Despain, editor ; Keyvan Acosta [and others].

Additional Titles: One hundred principles of game design
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, [2013]
Copyright Date: ©2013
Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Additional Creators: Despain, Wendy and Acosta, Keyvan

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Universal Principles for Game Innovation -- A/Symmetric Play and Synchronicity -- Aces High: Jokers Wild -- Bartie's Player Types -- Cooperative vs. Oppositional -- Fairness -- Feedback Loops -- Gardner's Multiple Intelligences -- Howard's Law of Occult Game Design -- Information -- Lazzaro's Four Keys to Fun -- Making Moves -- MDA: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics -- Memory vs. Skill -- Minimax and Maximin -- Nash Equilibrium -- Outcomes: Pareto Optimality -- Payoffs -- Puzzle Development -- Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Seven Universal Emotions -- Skinner Box -- Social Ties -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Transparency -- Vanden Berghe's Five Domains of Play -- Volunteer's Dilemma -- 2.Universal Principles for Game Creation -- The 80/20 Rule -- Brainstorming Methods -- Consumer Surplus -- Core Gameplay Loop -- Define the Problem -- Design by Committee -- Environmental Storytelling -- Experience Design -- Flow -- Four Ways to Be Creative -- Game Genres -- Game Pillars -- Game Tropes -- Gestalt -- House Rules -- Iteration -- Magic Wand -- Metagames -- Objects, Attributes, States -- Ooh, Shiny! -- Paper Prototyping -- Pick Two: Fast, Cheap, Good -- Play Testing -- Problem-Solving Obstacles -- Prototyping -- Risk Assessment -- Supply and Demand -- Synergy -- Theme -- Time and Money -- User-Centered Design -- Wayfinding -- 3.Universal Principles for Game Balancing -- Addiction Pathways -- Attention vs. Perception -- Balancing and Tuning -- Details -- Doubling and Halving -- Economies of Scale -- Errors Players Make -- Errors Without Punishment -- Hick's Law -- Interest Curve -- Learning Curve -- Loss Aversion -- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Min/Maxing -- Punishment -- Sandbox vs. On Rails -- Ten Minutes of Sustained Attention -- Variable Rewards -- 4.Universal Principles for Troubleshooting -- Advance Organizers -- Affordance Cues -- The Buster Principle -- Cognitive Biases -- Dominant Strategy -- Fitts' Law -- Fundamental Attribution Error -- Golden Ratio -- Griefing -- Hype -- Instant vs. Delayed Gratification -- Krug's First Law of Usability -- Music and Dopamine -- Pacing -- Problem-Solving Approaches -- Satisficing vs. Optimizing -- Sense of Accomplishment -- Spatial Awareness -- Time Dilation -- Working Memory -- Zero-Sum Game.

Subject(s)

Video games—Design
Video games—Programming

ISBN

9780321902498 (pbk.)
0321902491 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

Purchased with funds from the James and Joyce Gettys Libraries Endowment in the Math Library and in the School of Information Sciences and Technology; 2013

Endowment Note

James and Joyce Gettys Libraries Endowment in the Math Library and in the School of Information Sciences and Technology

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